I often see this sentiment in a lot of places of how artists don’t make enough money. And how for us to live in a world with insanely cool amounts of creativity and awesome art and stuff, we need a world that is able to have artists not need to worry about money. Which, yeah, would absolutely be awesome. As an artist of many forms, it would be insanely cool to be able to make a living by doing what I love. But the thing is, I don’t think that kind of a world is even possible.

I mean, art is already an EXTREMELY competitive career, and it is super rare when people can make a living off of that. This is simply because a lot of people don’t need art in a practical sense. Sure, making art takes a lot of effort, and in theory should be getting higher pay, but it’s rare when art is actually serving a functional service, so people aren’t gonna pay too much for it. And as employers look into hiring better and more talented artists, the price just becomes not worth it at a point.

My point is that too many people are seeing the problem of artists not making enough money and criticize society and capitalism and stuff, but if we’re being real I think it’s literally just because of the nature of how art works. It’s just not functional enough for 99% of purposes. so my blazing hot take is that if artists complain about barely making a living, it’s their mistake for solely trying to live off of art, not the fault of “society” or whatever.